Diffusion tensor analysis with invariant gradients and rotation tangents

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1483-1499

  Kindlmann, Gordon ^b   Ennis, Daniel B ^c   Whitaker, Ross T ^a,d   Westin, Carl Fredrik ^b  

^a IEEE

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Fourth order covariance tensor; Tensor feature detection; Tensor invariants; Third order gradient tensor

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TISSUE;

DIFFUSION TENSORS; FOURTH-ORDER COVARIANCE TENSOR; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; TENSOR FEATURE DETECTION; TENSOR INVARIANTS; THIRD-ORDER GRADIENT TENSOR;

TENSORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 35649023697     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2007.907277     Document Type: Article

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